IN MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER
REPORT
OF
THE
PROCEEDINGS
AT
MAN-
CHESTER, WITH Α ΝΟΤΕ ΟΝ ΤΗΕ CIRCUM-
STANCES WHICH LED UP ΤΟ ΤΗΕΜ
ALTHOUGH the Sovereign Grand Master General departed
this life on March 20, 1913, no official notice of the fact was
sent out by the senior active officer, the Grand Chancellor
General; but a few days after he had received the summons
issued in default of such action by the Acting Sovereign
Grand Master General, he sent another summons couched in
similar terms, calling a special Convocation at Manchester fer
4 p.m., June 28, 1913.
This was illegal for two reasons : First,
because Article XI of the Constitution provides that twenty
days’ notice must be given ; secondly, because by Article II the
Grand Administrator General or his substitute had not fulfilled
the conditions there imposed upon him, and because notices
were not issued to all the Prince Patriarch Grand Conservators
of the Rite.
Brother Crowley, however, attended in order to
protest against the illegalities.
He further found a person
claiming admission whose status he knew to be doubtful.
The proceedings therefore began and ended with
the
following Speech:
Very Illustrious Prince Patriarch Grand Conservators of
the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Antient and Primitive Rite,
Although
I rise to protest against the illegality of the
present Convocation, it is not in order to quibble over the
letter of our
Constitution that
I
have left my peaceful
encampment in the Valley of Paris.
When I see illegality, I ask myself, What has prompted it?
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